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    The document discusses the history and approaches to human rights. It traces the modern understanding of human rights emerging in the post-World War II era. It also outlines three main philosophical approaches to human rights: the natural law approach championed by Jacques Maritain, the positivist approach which sees rights as granted by those in power, and the Marxist approach which views individual and societal rights as indivisible. The document concludes that human rights place limitations on state sovereignty and that rights are not considered absolute.

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    The document discusses the history and approaches to human rights. It traces the modern understanding of human rights emerging in the post-World War II era. It also outlines three main philosophical approaches to human rights: the natural law approach championed by Jacques Maritain, the positivist approach which sees rights as granted by those in power, and the Marxist approach which views individual and societal rights as indivisible. The document concludes that human rights place limitations on state sovereignty and that rights are not considered absolute.

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    The document discusses the history and approaches to human rights. It traces the modern understanding of human rights emerging in the post-World War II era. It also outlines three main philosophical approaches to human rights: the natural law approach championed by Jacques Maritain, the positivist approach which sees rights as granted by those in power, and the Marxist approach which views individual and societal rights as indivisible. The document concludes that human rights place limitations on state sovereignty and that rights are not considered absolute.

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    HUMAN RIGHTS

    HISTORY

    Notion of universal
    human rights
    Modern
    understanding of
    human rights truly
    began to flourish
    Jacques
    Maritain
    Natural Law Approach

    Jacques
    Maritain
    • St. Thomas Aquinas
    Positivist Approach

    • Sees human rights granted by those in


    power rather than emanating from
    within every man.
    MARXIST
    Approach

    • Viewed the rights


    of persons as
    indivisible from
    that of society as a
    whole.
    Consequences

    A limit has been placed to the


    sovereignty of the State.
    Limitations

    Rights are not absolute

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